can you advise how SEO friendly this theme is please as it looks like it has issues with H1 and meta title tags. I did a test on the theme but need to check what your work around it as Salient didn't pass on a few of these tests.
Below are the criteria required to pass these two items, these are key for SEO.
Home page Heading SEO Best Practice:
One of the text string should be using a <h1> tag and the <h1> tag should not be the post title.
The <h1> tag contains the most important keywords that you want to rank on the search engines for the home page. There are several location where you can add the <h1> tag such as the blog title, blog description or the title of a static featured content.
It is not advisable to add the <h1> tag to the dynamic title
such as the post title because the keywords in the <h1> tag is the
most important keywords that you want to target after going through
careful keyword research so you want to keep it static.
The post titles should be using <h2> or <h3> tag.
Home page is the page most frequently spidered by the search engines. This is also where your newest post will get indexed. Normally, your post title contains important keywords and you want the search engines give higher weight to the keywords.
Post & Page Heading SEO Best Practice:
Only one <h1> tag is used
The reason why only one <h1> tag is used is because having more than one <h1> tag will greatly dilute the weight of the keywords you want to target.
The <h1> tag should be used in the post/page title
The post/page title contains the most important keywords that you want to target for the single post/page so using the <h1> tag in the title will greatly boost the weight of the keywords as seen by search engines.
Since it is a single post/page, the keywords in the <h1> tag will always be static.
Hoping you can advise.
if the answer is to use Yoast SEO plugin then I dont have a problem with the theme as would use this anyway.
I completely understand in regards to multi purpose themes but on home pages adding the <h1> tag dynamically to the title such as the post title is functionality and shouldn't really be related to configs. It should just be a best practice and keep the H1 static. A lot of themes do this and everybody wants it so that the titles are not the same on all pages.
I am not sure how much effort this is to fix but shouldn't be too much work. Can you add it to next version release update?
Just to add this, the thing with Yoast is that you cant control H1's with Yoast, you only add page titles and descriptions so Yoast doesn't help you there. I guess we have to manually change the CSS.
Hi,
can you advise how SEO friendly this theme is please as it looks like it has issues with H1 and meta title tags. I did a test on the theme but need to check what your work around it as Salient didn't pass on a few of these tests.
Theme test
http://www.themegrade.com/salient/
it failed on these key items:
Home page Heading SEO
Post & Page Heading SEO
Below are the criteria required to pass these two items, these are key for SEO.
Home page Heading SEO Best Practice:
One of the text string should be using a <h1> tag and the <h1> tag should not be the post title.
The <h1> tag contains the most important keywords that you want to
rank on the search engines for the home page. There are several
location where you can add the <h1> tag such as the blog title,
blog description or the title of a static featured content.
It is not advisable to add the <h1> tag to the dynamic title such as the post title because the keywords in the <h1> tag is the most important keywords that you want to target after going through careful keyword research so you want to keep it static.
The post titles should be using <h2> or <h3> tag.
Home page is the page most frequently spidered by the search engines.
This is also where your newest post will get indexed. Normally, your
post title contains important keywords and you want the search engines
give higher weight to the keywords.
Post & Page Heading SEO Best Practice:
Only one <h1> tag is used
The reason why only one <h1> tag is used is because having more
than one <h1> tag will greatly dilute the weight of the keywords
you want to target.
The <h1> tag should be used in the post/page title
The post/page title contains the most important keywords that you want
to target for the single post/page so using the <h1> tag in the
title will greatly boost the weight of the keywords as seen by search
engines.
Since it is a single post/page, the keywords in the <h1> tag will always be static.
Hoping you can advise.
if the answer is to use Yoast SEO plugin then I dont have a problem with the theme as would use this anyway.
Many thanks
Virginia
Hey,
Almost everyone uses Yoast as its impossible to keep SEO really high when you have a Multi purpose theme with various configurations .
Hope this makes sense.
Best.
ThemeNectar Support Team
Hi there,
I completely understand in regards to multi purpose themes but on home pages adding the <h1> tag dynamically to the title such as the post title is functionality and shouldn't really be related to configs. It should just be a best practice and keep the H1 static. A lot of themes do this and everybody wants it so that the titles are not the same on all pages.
I am not sure how much effort this is to fix but shouldn't be too much work. Can you add it to next version release update?
Virginia
Hi again,
Just to add this, the thing with Yoast is that you cant control H1's with Yoast, you only add page titles and descriptions so Yoast doesn't help you there. I guess we have to manually change the CSS.
Rgds
Virginia
Hey Again,
Added the request to the Wishlist .
Cheers
ThemeNectar Support Team